“As the 2000s fade to memory, what moments will be remembered as the portents of America’s future? Op-Ed editors asked 10 noted writers to consider events large and small that helped shape the last 10 years.”

// Marginal Utility

"The social-media companies have largely succeeded in persuading users of their platforms' neutrality. What we fail to see is that these new identities are no less contingent and dictated to us then the ones circumscribed by tradition; only now the constraints are imposed by for-profit companies in explicit service of gain.